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Heroin user

Ross J, Darke S The nature of benzodiazepine dependence among heroin users in Sydney, Australia. Addiction 95 1785-1793, 2000 Rounsaville BJ, Kleber HD Untreated opiate addicts. Arch Gen Psychiatry 42 1072— 1077, 1985b... [Pg.106]

Darke S, Ross J, Teesson M, et al Health service utilization and benzodiazepine use among heroin users findings from the Australian Tfearment Outcome Smdy (ATOS). Addiction 98 1129-1135, 2003... [Pg.151]

Heroin can be smoked ( chasing the dragon ), sniffed or prepared for injection. Opioids prescribed for medical use may be used for non-medical reasons, especially by heroin users who cannot otherwise get hold of heroin. [Pg.503]

The higher than expected frequencies of alcohol PCP - and heroin PCP-related deaths also would have occurred if the combinations were preferred by the users. The motivation may involve the injection of heroin to moderate the adverse effects of PCP, or the use of PCP to ease the pain of heroin withdrawal. Another explanation assumes a stimulant effect of PCP. The use of stimulants, especially cocaine, with heroin is increasingly popular among heroin users (Kozel et al. 1982). [Pg.183]

There were an estimated 166,000 current heroin users. [Pg.11]

Today, as a result of criminal prohibition, heroin is only available on the black market and is commonly adulterated with admixtures that increase the health risks, including the likelihood of overdose." Additionally, under criminal prohibition, most states do not allow heroin users to obtain sterile syringes users are left to re-use syringes and share these with other users. ... [Pg.14]

The amount of thefederal drug control budget allocated for efforts to supply naloxone to heroin users and those closest to them for voluntary use in emergency situations is zero. [Pg.15]

Strang, J., Darke, S., Hall, W. Farrell, M. AN, R. (1996). Heroin overdose the case for take-home naloxone. British Medical Journal, 312 1435-1436. http //bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/312/7044/1435 (for full text) Darke, S. Hall, W. (1997). The distribution of naloxone to heroin users. Addiction, 92. 1195-1199.http-//www.blackwell-synergy.com/links/ doi/10.1046/j. 1360-0443.1997.929119520.x/abs/ iot abstract)... [Pg.46]

Backmund M, Meyer K, Eichenlaub D Schiitz CG (2001). Predictors for completing an inpatient detoxification program among intravenous heroin users, methadone substituted and codeine substituted patients. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 64, 173-80... [Pg.149]

Evaluating the impact of methadone maintenance programmes on mortality due to overdose and AIDS in a cohort of heroin users in Spain. Addiction, 100, 981-9... [Pg.151]

Dolan KA, Shearer J, White B, Zhou J, Kaldor J Wodak AD (2005). Four-year follow-up of imprisoned male heroin users and methadone treatment mortality, re-incarceration and hepatitis C infection. Addiction, 100, 820-8... [Pg.154]

Hulse GK Basso MR (1999). Reassessing naltrexone maintenance as a treatment for illicit heroin users. Drug Alcohol Review, 18, 263-9... [Pg.160]

Ross J, Darke S Hall W (1997). Transitions between routes of benzodiazepine administration among heroin users in Sydney. Addiction, 92, 697-705... [Pg.168]

Tassiopoulos K, Bernstein J, Heeren T, Levenson S, Hingson R Bernstein E (2004). Hair testing and self-report of cocaine use by heroin users. Addiction, 99, 590-7... [Pg.171]

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